2. “Oh, that I were as in months past,As in the days when God watched over me;
3. When His lamp shone upon my head,And when by His light I walked through darkness;
4. Just as I was in the days of my prime,When the friendly counsel of God was over my tent;
5. When the Almighty was yet with me,When my children were around me;
6. When my steps were bathed with cream,And the rock poured out rivers of oil for me!
7. “When I went out to the gate by the city,When I took my seat in the open square,
8. The young men saw me and hid,And the aged arose and stood;
9. The princes refrained from talking,And put their hand on their mouth;
10. The voice of nobles was hushed,And their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.